Tier 1 Dragon Link – Combos + Decklist NEW META 2021
| Deck Information | |
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| Deck Type: | Meta Decks |
| Deck Master: | Hieratic Seal of the Heavenly Spheres |
| TCG/OCG: | TCG |
| Submission Date: | February 9th 2021 |
| Author: | Yugituber |
| YGOPRODeck File Download | |
Hello and welcome to yet another (you guessed it!) Dragon link build!! Dragon link stays strong and is still one of the best decks of the format. Some decks like Drytron, Virtual World and Zoo-Eldlich are clearly better but dragon link is not out of the game yet. A mere linkross ban cannot keep this deck from going down tiers. If I were to rank dragon link in the current metagame, I would give it a solid tier 1.5 (Tier 1 would be Drytron, VW and Eldlich). Another thing to consider is that Dragon link Took 1st in the 3v3 LCS 10!! There were more than 300 players participating in this tournament and dragon link still found it’s way to the top (Insert Sam saying “I TOLD YOU!!!” Here). 1st place was taken by Gabriel Netz and his team and this build I have today is inspired off of his build but has differences.
Before Doing the deck explanation, I just wanted to thank everyone here at YGOPROdeck for all the support. This is deck #30 for me and I have already hit over 115,000 total views for my decks here on YGOPROdeck!! To me this means a lot and I feel like it is amazing being able to communicate with so many people. Thanks for the support!
Just a quick reminder that the deck explanation, All the combos and explanations on ways to best use your resources are ALL on my Youtube video. Subscribing to the channel would be a great way to support me and the channel!
Link to the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxoVkis44ng
Changes I am making to my build (compared to my older versions) -
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- I am not playing VFD - this is not a deck revolving around using VFD as the main negate/win condition. It uses several different kinds of interruptions to disrupt the opponent. It uses specific interruptions designed to counter the top tier decks of the current metagame. For example, Heradic seal and Dragonmaid Tidying are used to bounce back cards to the opponent’s hand - this is an amazing way to counter Zoodiac (very reliant on normal summon) and Virtual world (gets rid of the card targets for the VW monsters) and is also a high impact interruption which can be used to get rid of walls like Dragoon and Final Sigma as well (bounce does not target or destroy) and Number 68 completely exodia obliterates Drytron and is also effective against eldlich and other graveyard reliant decks.
- I am playing a 40 card deck - To increase consistency this was needed. This deck is also not playing bricks (except PSY-Driver which does not count) so it is completely ok to play 40 cards because the main reason Dragon link played bricks in the first place was to reduce the risk of drawing bricks, but since this deck plays only 1 brick, it is fine to play 40. The 1st place deck also played 40 cards.
- I am not running black metal - Again, I needed to make the deck 40 cards and there wasn’t space for this. Also, since decks like Drytron are in the metagame, the popularity of skull mister is gone up and Black metal is a skull mister target. I just felt like Seyfert and Chaos space were more than enough. Seyfert and space also have the protection of GAMMA.
- I am running Chamber Dragonmaid and Dragonmaid Tidying - This was because Tidying is such a strong trap and is very high impact. Chamber can serve as the normal summon and since the deck just plays so many extenders, the deck can afford to play Chamber as a normal summon instead of something like seyfert. Normal summoning Chamber is better than normal summoning something like rokket tracer. Chamber can also be summoned off of elpy if not drawn. Tidying also serves as a monster reborn for the following turn and that will allow chamber to search another tidying if you need to play the grind game.
Composition of the deck -
| Starters (cards you usually normal summon to get the combo going - there are ones that do not require the normal summon but almost all the starters get you into a romulus) | For starters (get it? Starters? Nvm) I am playing 3 Chamber Dragonmaid, 3 Seyfert, 3 Chaos Space, 1 Black Dragon and 1 White Dragon. Chamber does not get you into a romulus and requires an extra extender to work with but is a great card since it increases the disruptions on the endboard by 1 in the form of a very high impact trap card - Dragonmaid tidying. This is well worth the extender and chamber is also something’s summoned off of elpy. Seyfert and chaos space (the best starter) are to search the chaos dragons and can be protected from ash blossom with gamma. If one of the chaos dragons are drawn, with any normal summon of the other attribute (light or dark) it is basically a starter on its own. Chaos space can also search lavineer and if you manage to not banish seyfert, you can even mill lavineer with ravine, use seyfert to add back lavineer and search anything else with Brotaur!! |
| Extenders (cards that extend your plays and help if you get hit with handtraps) | The extenders are - 3 Quick launch, 3 World Legacy, 3 Noctovision, 1 brotar and 1 Lavineer. No explanation needed for those, all of those will help you extend plays. |
| Combo extenders (cards that extend your combo, put up additional disruptions and are good to see in hand but cannot help you if you get handtrapped in most cases) | They are - 3 Tracer, 2 synchron, 1 recharger, 1 absorouter and 2 Tidying. All of these cards help your plays and combos in setting additional interruptions - watch my video for knowing how these help the combo, you need to actually know the combo to understand why these cards help. |
| Handtraps | I am running 3 ash and 3 gamma, very self explanatory. |
| Soft Bricks | They are (one each) PSY-Driver, Boot Sector and Dragon Ravine. Soft bricks simply mean a -1, nothing too dangerous. |
Cards in this deck that counter the current meta -
Notice that cards from the side deck are also included. The stuff in parenthesis is what the card counters in that deck, if there is no parenthesis, it means it counters the deck in general. Ash is not in this list since it counters literally everything. Basic interruptions such as seal, savage, and tidying are not mentioned unless they specifically counter a certain deck - they also counter literally anything but I choose not to add them in. And yes Tri-brigade and rocks are meta now.
- Drytron - number 68 (hardcounter), droll (hardcounter), nibiru, droplet (ruler and ultimateness)
- Eldlich - hfd and cosmic cyclone (backrow removal), lancea (side deck), lavineer (can pop backrow), unchained (pops) and basic removal cards, number 68
- Zoodiac (all to counter zeus) - dinowrestler, kaijus, nibiru, droplet, tidying and seal (zoo is very relient on normal summon)
- Virtual World - droplet (VFD and shenshen), gamma(VFD), cosmic cyclone (banishes chuche - makes them unable to combo), nibiru (not always useful since number 75 is in VW), seal and tidying (get rid of the targets for the VW monsters), kaiju (shenshen), dinowrestler (shenshen), droll, lancea
- Bird up! Tri-Brigade - droplet (apex avian and zeus), lancea (hardcounter), kaijus and dinowrestler (zeus and apex avian), nibiru, seal and tidying (relient on certain combo pieces to resolve)
- Adamancipators - nibiru, droplet (for the multiple negate endboard), kaijus and dinowrestler (break endboard), tidying and seal (fairly relient on normal summon)
Conclusion - Dragon link is a solid meta contender and I would rank it (in the current metagame) a tier 1.5 deck. It is definitely not the best deck or anything, in my opinion Drytron, Virtual World and Eldlich outrank it (tier 1 decks) but Dragon link is still a great meta choice. If you want to win more, I would recommend playing one of the other 3 decks but Dragon link can also win duels - just that the other 3 decks are a little better. If you are like me you would play dragon link anyway!! The deck can easily go anti meta and fares fairly well against the top 3 meta contenders but loses easily to NIBIRU. I think in the end it all comes down to how familiar you are with the deck, if you are confident and familiar with this deck - I saw go for it beat all the other meta contenders and show them who’s on top!!! Dragon link best deck lets goooo!
Just a quick reminder that the deck explanation, All the combos and explanations on ways to best use your resources are ALL on my Youtube video. Subscribing to the channel would be a great way to support me and the channel!
Link to the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxoVkis44ng
Also make sure to answer the poll question in the comments! Today’s poll question is: If you had to rank all the yugioh anime, what order would you rank them and what score would you give each of them out of 10?
Mine would be -
- 5ds (9.5/10)
- ZEXAL (9/10)
- Duel monsters season 1 (8/10)
- Vrains (7/10)
- Duel academy (7/10)
- Arc - v (1/10)
Thanks and I’ll see you next time!! :D
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Today’s poll question is: If you had to rank all the yugioh anime, what order would you rank them and what score would you give each of them out of 10?
Mine would be –
5ds (9.5/10)
ZEXAL (9/10)
Duel monsters season 1 (8/10)
Vrains (7/10)
Duel academy (7/10)
Arc – v (1/10)
I hate arc -v so much
DM- trash compared to the source material. the manga is better- 3/10
GX- its ok- 8/10
5ds- saw like 5 episodes- 7/10
Zexal- rly good if u give it a try- 9/10
Arcv- i wish season 3 was as good as season 2- 5/10
vrains- i rly like yusakus character. and they make smart plays- 9/10
and im gonna assume that sevens is a 0/10
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What’s sevens?
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the one w rush dueling
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Watch the entire 5ds its amazing And ZEXAL is good too (High five the sky!!)
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0/10 it is
sevens came out about a year ago
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Never heard of them so yeah
DM 3/10 way to much nonsense
GX 4/10 to much filler
5ds 7/10 excellent first season and the rest are okay
Zexal 8/10 tone down yuma but otherwise excellent
Arc-V 2/10 only good thing was declan
Vrains 9/10 my favorite good pacing and made me just want to keep watching
You could run hospitality instead of tidying since that can get you into romulus
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Great I really like revolver lol
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Tidying is for the high impact bounce
true
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Yeah you have plenty of other extenders and also have seyfert and chaos space to go into romulus
This deck can actually play through nibiru quite well because of the amount of extenders. If nibirued, you can end on a savage + tidying on the very least
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You already have seyfert and chaos space for that
@Hero_Odet My favorite Character from the yugioh anime is probably revolver
Mine’s Specter
sylvio, kite, and yusaku are my favorites
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Crazy plant dude? Ok interesting choice…
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YUSAKU uses FIREWALL so I hate him (mostly cuz he reminds me of You-Know-What)
You have a problem with “crazy plant dude”
I like crazy plant dude’s deck. The character is interesting too
who tf is the crazy plant dude
specter
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who tf is specter
the plant guy from vrains that u were asking about
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Crazy plant dude from vrains that runs sanavalon
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you watch GX for the plot?
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I just watch them for fun ngl
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Yes I do, though there are duels are enjoyable
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There was a good plant monster recently revealed – you should probably check it out
the new monster is good. Allows you to end on a bounce and pop 4
I hope sunaalon gets support. Its one of my favorite deck, and hope more cards from anime come. I just want it to coem to tcg first
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I’m talking about the one that mills and banishes itself from the GY as a monster reborn
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They can extra link so thats good i guess
which one is that. They can extra link but it requires opening extenders
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Staysailor Romaryne
why are people asking for sunavalon support? they havent even dropped in the tcg
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Because yes
fuck sunavalon. SUPER DEFENSE ROBOTS ARE THE SUPREME ANIME DECK. ORBITAL 7 TURBO TIER 0 SUPER THREAT
i juust want them to come to the tcg
how about mucus yolk otk
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Zone Eater FTK is better
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I want Dragunity Remus and Crossout Designator in the TCG
scrap raptor>crossout designator
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I love that comparison
Nibiru > scrap raptor
AND
Crossout > nibiru
So therefore Crossout > raptor
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no
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Raptor is coming soon anyway – Crossout has no date of release yet ):
mucus yolk has no attack so harder to otk
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What is that?
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gains 1000 each attack
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Nice
Mucus yolk
That’s not a real card
yes it is. i saw it in the deck builder
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link it then
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https://db.ygoprodeck.com/card/?search=Mucus+Yolk&_ga=2.51682601.1076270938.1612116482-1748456285.1612116482
I’m surprised you all have such low opinions of Arc V, I absolutely loved it, I watched it as it was airing after binging episode 1 to 37 over a few days, when that was all that was out at the time, and really enjoyed how there was regular use of every summon method and all the different characters, the concept of the dimensions being split and one being radicalised and trying to take over the others ala Germany 1939, and how despite Yuya not getting that war and people trying to kill you and each other means you’re gonna have to do things you won’t like and aren’t nice, because it’s a Yugioh series he actually changed a lot of people’s minds and got through to their hearts, and so many of the duels were just better than what we saw previously because of no summon method being off limit and the inclusion of Pendulum summons and effects, and lots of characters being given them.
So for me, because of that and taking into account the quality of plot, story progression, and duels, as well as personal enjoyment and biases of course, I rank them as such:
Arc-V and 5Ds joint first place, because I admit 5Ds is better and deeper story wise, but overall I enjoyed Arc V more. Zexal and Vrains joint second for the same reasons, then GX, then Season 0, then Duel Monsters, and lastly the first few episodes of Sevens I watched that was enough to put me off it and know it truly is now just aimed at the very young market, which is completely fair enough but definitely not for me.
i liked seasons 1-2 of arc v alot, season 2 being one of my favorite seasons of yugioh, but yuya and friends were just unbearable in season 3
How to fix Arc-V, cut some characters that served no purpose like gong and the three kids and give more time for other characters to develop, like the yu boys and some of the characters from the older shows, more declan duels, make yuya duel like his father not just rainbows but calculated and exiting not the same thing, don’t make him love everyone, cut the whole I want ray back plot it felt wrong. Any other ideas?
better writing for season 3
Here’s how season three should go they arrive in the Xyz dimension where they meet a duelist named kite yuto knows this duelist and convinces yuya to let him take over then we get a tag team duel between Sylvio and Yuya/Yuto, they draw, Kite escapes and finds duel academy’s base where the professor is visiting asterwhen kite challenges them the professor and aster duel kite, the professor defeats both aster and kite, right before aster gets carded he asks why the professor says “you were nothing more than tools for me” that’s when yuya and friends show up and see this happening, yuya says”he trusted you he did horrible thing but you were like a father to him and you betrayed him.” The professor responds of course hes just a pawn and silly boy
Part 1 ended
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Nice! I hated arc-v because of all the hippo madness and Yuga acting like a complete joker. I also didn’t like how it ended but thats only my opinion
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You should write a book
what if vrains had pends
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It would be trash
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pendulum link monsters would be so cursed
I love Zexal. Best animation and artwork. Very good plot near the end as well with iconic boss monsters.
I didn’t enjoy Vrains but the facial expressions on crazy sunavalon dude and yusaku were great.
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SPECTOR!!
Sorry man didn’t care for the series enough to remember his name.
ive only seen the first 10 eps of vrains. is revolver that guy who leads the hanoi
also when does the salamangreat guy come in
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just learned thtt they changed his name for the dub
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It’s soulburner
Yup it is, maybe shoulda watched past ep 40. To be fair, I gave the show a fair chance and was still bored throughout it.
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Revolver inspired me to play dragon link
at first, i thought rev was “Varis”. Around when did soulburner enter the show?
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I don’t give out spoilers – thank me later
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You changed your pfp AGAIN?
it draws attention and makes ppl click my decks more
u just cant ignore my current pfp
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It’s mesmerizing
Great deck mate, it even works really well with Borrelend so whenever that gets released in the TCG this deck will fit with that easily and still be able to summon out Savage as well.
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Thanks! I appreciate the kind words. And yes I am still waiting for borrelend to come out in the tcg along with rocss rose, Dragunity Remus and some other dragon support. Rocss rose is coming LIOV so thats good ig
Dragon link best deck
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no
Scrap Orcust(machina) is better. it feels good when you apollousa for 4 on the opponent’s turn
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Thats not even close to meta
Halq in a nutshell –
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but the end board is funny
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Whatever
orcust will be competitive again when raptor drops in the tcg
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I doubt it but ok
at least rogue. read scrap raptor . Scrap orcust can do some crazy sht w that card
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Nothing meta relevant tho
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Tier 2 at best
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yea
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I said tier 2 AT BEST – mostly gonna be a rouge contender depending on the banlist
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yea
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It has a nice tier 2 chance if VFD and benten get hit
i dont see orcust ever being higher than teir 2 unless some insanely broken machine support drops
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Well true or if harp comes to 1…
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the best end board i have made is dragoon, machina citadel, I:P, and verte(to go into a 2 mat apollousa)
Final stigma is unaffect so u would have to destroy it by battle
A watt engine can get past a final sigma
“If you have at least 7 machine monsters in the graveyard you win the duel”
Here insane support
*equips assembled nightingale w 3 psychic blades giving it 6000 attack*
*attacks directly twice*
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Just play dragon link
Combo 1 is illegal; tracer locks you into DARK after you use its effect. Otherwise, kudos to you.
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Thanks! Also you can do the same thing with seyfert or chaos space + extender to do that combo, yes ik I made a mistake
idk bout that